North American Plains of North America
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of 144 objects associated with the North American plains which date broadly from 4000 BC to 2004. This significant collection encompasses costume, tools, ceramics, containers, body ornaments and ritual apparatus. It also contains hunting and fishing equipment, models, contemporary artwork, crafts, domestic tools and textiles. The collection also includes horse furniture, bags, pouches, smoking apparatus, charms, cradles and prehistoric stone tools. Many of the items are of historical importance including five Teton Lakota leather pouches attributed to an American army officer at the battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876. The collection boasts material presented by George Crager, an interpreter with Buffalo Bill Cody's travelling Wild West Show, in 1892, among which was a Lakota Ghost Dance shirt, attributed to the battlefield of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in 1890. This shirt was returned to the Lakota people in 1999 and a replica shirt, made by Marcella le Beau, a descendent of Rain in the Face, along with three star quilts and other objects, was presented to Glasgow. The North American Plains Indians included diverse tribes including the Sioux, Cheyenne, Crow, Blackfeet, Comanche and Pawnee.
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